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Deep Unsupervised Cardinality Estimation

Summary: Deep autoregressive models for unsupervised cardinality estimation, no independence assumptions. Monte Carlo integration over autoregressors enables range queries across dimensions, delivering single-digit tail error and up to 90x gains vs baselines. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
12132
Venue
VLDB
Year
2020
Pagerank
0.0001706608
Overall Rank
758 | 94.73%
DOI
10.14778/3368289.3368294

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3,449 Learned Cardinality Estimation: A Design Space Exploration and A Comparative Evaluation 2022 VLDB 7.0824319e-05
3,473 AI Meets Database: AI4DB and DB4AI 2021 SIGMOD 7.062864e-05
3,499 Fauce: Fast and Accurate Deep Ensembles with Uncertainty for Cardinality Estimation 2021 VLDB 7.0376445e-05
3,727 Cost-based or Learning-based? A Hybrid Query Optimizer for Query Plan Selection 2022 VLDB 6.8141709e-05
3,778 A Learned Sketch for Subgraph Counting 2021 SIGMOD 6.7747398e-05
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4,434 Lightweight and Accurate Cardinality Estimation by Neural Network Gaussian Process 2022 SIGMOD 6.1929999e-05
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4,593 Auto-WLM: Machine Learning Enhanced Workload Management in Amazon Redshift 2023 SIGMOD 6.0606891e-05
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5,258 One Model to Rule them All: Towards Zero-Shot Learning for Databases 2022 CIDR 5.5998705e-05
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6,297 Towards instance-optimized data systems 2021 VLDB 5.1227886e-05
6,368 Pre-training Summarization Models of Structured Datasets for Cardinality Estimation 2022 VLDB 5.0937722e-05
6,383 Sample-Efficient Cardinality Estimation Using Geometric Deep Learning 2024 VLDB 5.0884322e-05
6,519 Expand your Training Limits! Generating Training Data for ML-based Data Management 2021 SIGMOD 5.0316686e-05
6,685 How Good are Learned Cost Models, Really? Insights from Query Optimization Tasks 2025 SIGMOD 4.9627485e-05
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372 Selectivity Estimation using Probabilistic Models 2001 SIGMOD 0.00025354779
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842 Independence is Good: Dependency-Based Histogram Synopses for High-Dimensional Data 2001 SIGMOD 0.00016031973
1,105 Cardinality Estimation Done Right: Index-Based Join Sampling 2017 CIDR 0.00013990395
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1,737 QuickSel: Quick Selectivity Learning with Mixture Models 2020 SIGMOD 0.00010720294
2,083 Towards a Learning Optimizer for Shared Clouds 2019 VLDB 9.5834572e-05
2,165 Self-Tuning, GPU-Accelerated Kernel Density Models for Multidimensional Selectivity Estimation 2015 SIGMOD 9.389622e-05
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7,581 Synopses for Query Optimization: A Space-Complexity Perspective 2004 PODS 4.7057641e-05
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